Texas state tax has pros and cons. The statewide sales tax rate of 6.25% is a bit high, and localities can add 2%. Property taxes in Texas are also on the high end but were recently lowered for ...

Texas’ high housing costs sparked a movement to bring them down. The fight could shape the state for years to come. Disclosure: Texas 2036, Texas Municipal League and Texas Public Policy ...

In a year marred by escalating gun violence and an alarming number of climate disasters, Texas has been deemed the third least safe state in the U.S., according to a new report by personal-finance ...

I let the wheels take the space they needed and once I had the gear train, I decided to go around the gears and drew the case shape around the movement.” Before Mr. Berneron introduced the 38 ...

By Rachel Nostrant A Texas man has dropped his lawsuit against three women who helped his ex-wife obtain abortion pills, a case widely seen as designed to discourage private citizens from aiding ...

Texas is due to execute a man for murdering his two-year-old daughter, despite doubts about his guilt. Robert Roberson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday after Texas’s Board ...

Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian always comes prepared, even at his weekly question-and-answer session with reporters Mondays at Royal-Memorial Stadium. Before he fields questions, Sarkisian ...

The scene was a familiar one at Austin City Hall: The City Council once again was seeking reforms to curb the capital city’s sky-high home prices and rents, and opponents had turned out in force ...

This is the first part of a series of stories on housing affordability in Texas. You can read the second ... Nathaniel Barrett, a Dallas developer who helped shape the plan, said ForwardDallas ...